Zoom into picture.

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Zoom into picture.

I have a picture in my keynote presentation that I want to zoom into one area of the picture. (the class of 1939) to highlight myself.
Can this be done?

Posted on Nov 7, 2005 5:27 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 7, 2005 6:30 PM in response to Howard Baker

Howard,

welcome to Keynote Discussions.

You cannot do that with Keynote.

As a workaround, create a second image with the desired size and the detail you want to show.
Add this image on the first image in Keynote. Ceate a build where the first image disappears while the second one (your detail) appears, e.g. effect Scale. In the build order drawer, set "Start Build" to "Together with #x" where #x is the number of the disappearing image.

You could also create a QuickTime movie of your picture applying Ken-Burns-Effect to zoom-in and drag the QT movie to your Keynote slide.

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Answer 2

Sijmons

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Nov 11, 2005 2:35 PM in response to Matthias Rempe

Having a moving magnifying glass in a next Keynote version would be a very beautiful add-on that many users would love to use to keep us ahead of the powerpoint guys.

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Answer 3

Kyn Drake

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Nov 11, 2005 3:32 PM in response to Sijmons

And there's always these too.

http://www.keynotethemepark.com/content/pages/superelements.html

Made to highlight certain parts of a slide in a really snazy way.

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Answer 4

Sijmons

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Nov 11, 2005 3:39 PM in response to Kyn Drake

Kyn,
when one uses the glass effect in your superelements, does that actually enlarge part of a picture?

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Answer 5

Brian Peat

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Nov 11, 2005 4:37 PM in response to Sijmons

Nope, there's no system for changing the image below...though it would be awesome if Apple gave us "lenses" in K3 using Core Image. Then you could apply effects to an object and stick it ABOVE another one to give say, a zoom lens effect.

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Answer 6

Kyn Drake

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Nov 11, 2005 6:32 PM in response to Sijmons

Brian's right, this is just an example of the kind of highlighting that Keynote can do, that PowerPoint doesn't do quite as well.

Though, now I'm wondering if it would be fairly easy to do this kind of thing using Quartz Composer. It wouldn't be THAT easy because you'd have to work it all out manually, but if it rendered quick enough, it might be ok.

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Answer 7

H I

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Nov 19, 2005 3:22 PM in response to Kyn Drake

And when K3, in January???.

K2 one misses a update

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Answer 8

Howard Baker Author

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Feb 7, 2006 2:53 PM in response to Matthias Rempe

Howard,

welcome to Keynote Discussions.

You cannot do that with Keynote.

As a workaround, create a second image with the
desired size and the detail you want to show.
Add this image on the first image in Keynote. Ceate a
build where the first image disappears while the
second one (your detail) appears, e.g. effect Scale.
In the build order drawer, set "Start Build" to
"Together with #x" where #x is the number of the
disappearing image.

You could also create a QuickTime movie of your
picture applying Ken-Burns-Effect to zoom-in and drag
the QT movie to your Keynote slide.

Will try this

Thanks Matthias

Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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